Feds Charge Providence Man With Driving Car At ICE Agent

PROVIDENCE, RI — The U.S. Attorney's Office charged a Providence man with striking an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent with his car.

Alfredo Nufio Marroquin, 39, was charged with forcibly resisting, opposing, and impeding federal officers and willful depredation of government property.

ICE agents and task force officers attempted to pull Nufio Marroquin over in Providence on Jan. 22, according to the charge filed against him in federal court.

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"As officers were getting out of their car to approach Nufio Marroquin’s car on foot, he drove off to evade law enforcement," the charge said.

"Officers followed Nufio Marroquin’s vehicle and conducted a second stop, with one officer approaching the front of Nufio Marroquin’s car and yelling, 'Police/ice! turn off the vehicle,'" the charge said Nufio Marroquin did not turn off the vehicle. A second officer approached Nufio Marroquin’s driver’s side door and instructed him to turn off the vehicle and roll the window down. Nufio Marroquin did not do so."

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An officer attempted to break one of the car window's, according to the charge, and "Nufio Marroquin put his vehicle in reverse, striking the government-owned vehicle parked behind him and causing it to rock in place."

"The vehicle sustained scratches above the right front wheel and to the right side of the front bumper," the charge said.

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"Nufio Marroquin then put the vehicle in drive and made a sharp left directly towards two officers," the charge said. "One officer was struck on his side by Nufio Marroquin’s vehicle as it pulled away, and fell to the ground. At or about the same time, the second officers grabbed the first and pulled him out of the way."

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The U.S. Attorney's Office District of Rhode Island failed to respond when asked why the ICE agents pulled Nufio Marroquin over.

Judge Melissa R. DuBose ordered Nufio Marroquin to be held at Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls.

Nufio Marroquin is "allegedly unlawfully present in the United States," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

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